Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943-2000 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
4 boxes or 0.04 cubic metres
Scope and content
Printed manuals including Military History Burma 1943-1945 and Guide to new arrivals: the British Army in Cyprus , nd. Pamphlet histories of the Queen Mary's Auxiliary Corps, University of St Andrews Officer Training Corps, The Womens' Royal Army Corps, Royal College of Defence Studies and the Imperial Defence College. Official publications including 'Report on the staff/promotion examination 1967' and 'The Armed Forces Pension Scheme' [1991]; Womens' Royal Army Corps (WRAC) items including WRAC: Corps Memorandum, 1978; WRAC Liaison Notes, 1987; Corps Day programme, 15 Jun 1996 and WRAC concert programme, 21 Mar 1992. Biographies for the 1987 course at Royal College of Defence Studies and obituaries and portrait photograph of Meechie.
Publications, 1943-2000, chiefly on women in the Armed Forces including Lioness (journal of the Womens' Royal Army Corps Association), issues 1963-2000; Women in Khaki , Roy Terry (1988); Marlborough's Campaigns , Maycock (1956); Je Maintiendrai: a concise history of the Dutch Army , Amersfoort /Kamphuis (1985); Service with the Army , Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1941); The Chilwell Story: VC factory and Ordnance Depot , Haslam (1982); Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland , 1969-1984, Hamill (1985); The New Groundwork of British History , Warner, Marten & Muir (1943); F.A.N.Y. The Story of the Women's Transport Service , Hugh Popham (1985) and The Auxiliary Territorial Service , The War Office (1949).
System of arrangement
Original order
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Publications originally belonging to Brig Helen Guild Meechie, Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) 1982-1986.
Repository
Custodial history
Received from the family, 2001
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Meechie, Helen Guild, 1938-2001, Director of the WRAC (Subject)
- FANI, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Subject)
- Imperial Defence College (Subject)
- Officer Training Corps, OTC (Subject)
- Royal College of Defence Studies (Subject)
- St Andrews University (Subject)
- WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Subject)
- WRAC, Womens' Royal Army Corps (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery